Federal officials said they had found deplorable conditions in many state institutions where children were supposed to receive treatment.
It's deplorable, she says, "that an institution set up on the basis of religious freedom should today so deeply betray its own founding principles".
Our national budget is a farce; our debt is deplorable; some of the most basic institutions set in place to help the poor, sick and homeless are held hostage by Capitol Hill hysterics and shut-down threats.
The policy, which goes back to the 1950's, was a humane reaction to deplorable conditions in many of the state institutions, and it made good theoretical sense.
Surely Penn State the institution deserves sanctions for the deplorable actions of authorities.
The deplorable conditions at Willowbrook, a state-run institution, seized the nation's attention in 1972, when Geraldo Rivera, then a reporter for WABC-TV in New York, put a spotlight on them, showing children lying naked on the floor, their bodies contorted, their feces spread on walls.
Conditions in many of the institutions were described by the experts as "deplorable," with blood, mucus and dried feces on the walls of many high-security cells.
The report concludes by stressing the need by academic institutions to be increasingly aware of the deplorable working conditions of their adjunct faculty.
President Felipe Calderón called the breakout "deplorable" and added in a Twitter message that the "vulnerability of state institutions of justice must be corrected".
In 1972, Geraldo Rivera, then a young reporter at WABC-TV, found his way inside the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, a state-run institution that housed some 5,000 developmentally disabled residents in deplorable conditions.
